Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Nicholson

When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.

Jack Kevorkian

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

Jack Kevorkian

I have no regrets, none whatsoever.

Jack Black

There were times when I thought I got a bit more punishment than was coming to me, but I don't regret a minute of it now. Each of us must be tempered in some fire. Nobody had more to do with choosing the fire that tempered me than myself, and instead of finding fault with the fire I give thanks that I had the metal to take the temper and hold it.

J. Cole

If I lost your respect...I'm just hope you don't look at me as something you regret.

J. Cole

Hard to move on when you always regret one.

Grace Slick

When you get older, it's not about what you did that you regret, it's what you didn't do.

Ginnifer Goodwin

I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally. Then I'll take a teeny movie when I need to work on myself and become a better actor.

I'm sorry for what I've done. There's not a whole lot I can say, ... I couldn't take it any more. Something had to be done. I'm sorry, but I don't regret it.

Goran Persson

I am the first to regret that we did not see then what now seems to be simple to see.

Neil Jordan

Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy.

Neil Gaiman

We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however. I regret the conversations we never had, the time we did not spend together. I regret that I never told him that he made me happy, when I was in his company. The world was the better for his being in it. These things alone do I now regret: things left unsaid. And he is gone, and I am old.

John Newman

I think the main reason for staying positive is because if I walk out this door and get hit by a car and I have 10 seconds to live, in those 10 seconds, am I gonna sit there and regret being having been negative and bored my whole life?

John Noble

Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.

John Wayne

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

John Rzeznik

With every decision you make in your life, you're going to have some regrets about the way it goes. You just have to chose which set of regrets you can live with the best, and try to minimize the amount of regrets you have.

John Rzeznik

It's better to have a pocket full of regrets than to never have lived.

John Smith

Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

Nicole Kidman

Regrets are ridiculous, so I don’t regret, no.

Nick Carter

But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Nancy Gibbs

While we meant to invite debate about some ways the word was used this year, that nuance was lost, and we regret that its inclusion has become a distraction from the important debate over equality and justice.

Scott Spencer

The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.

Seth Godin

Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer, they will find someone else to hassle. Sooner or later, they stop pointing out how much hubris you've got, how you're not entitled to make a new thing, how you will certainly come to regret your choices. Sooner or later, your work speaks for itself. Outlasting the critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you're more patient than they are.

Slash

I dont believe in having regrets.

Siri Hustvedt

That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.

Socrates

Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it

You made a decision given your life circumstances and you have to be ok with that. Regrets that can't be change is just torturing yourself.

Michelle Rodriguez

I've been part of really big things that are amazing, but I haven't taken on that responsibility yet. So I don't want to sell myself short by having a kid and then regret not doing what I set out to do.

Michael Scott

In my experience, we only ever regret the things we have not done

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Okay. That was nice. Clothes. You need clothes before I do something I might not regret. What was your size again, Steve? (Sunshine) Talon. (Talon) Talon. Size. Clothes. Cover him up. I’m going to go get Talon clothes. Keys. Need keys for car. Purse. Money for clothes. Shoes. Must have shoes to shop and keep feet warm. (Sunshine) What about a coat? It is wintertime. (Talon) Coats are good in the winter. (Sunshine)

Terry O'Quinn

I so rarely turned down a role, that I can't say I have any regrets in that regard. There were many roles that I would rather not have done, but having a home and family requires that we sometimes do things we would rather not.

Kevin Shelley

While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself.

Michael Finley

I don't regret not coming out early. A lot of people felt that I could have been a lottery pick, but we'll never know.